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Posted on Jan 21, 2010 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: Druid, Analysis / Opinion, PvP, Guides, The Art of War(craft) (PvP), Battlegrounds
Zach thinks Conan is funnier. This has nothing to do with World of Warcraft. But it’s good to say it, anyway.
Considering that we have ourselves a bit of time before the next exciting thing comes out — Cataclysm and the new Battle for Gilneas Battleground — I thought it’d be a good time to write up a quick guide to fighting the different classes. Since we ended last year with a basic primer to the battlegrounds, we’ll use the start of the year and the lull before the next expansion to compile a guide to fighting the different classes. That should probably hold true for a bit until Cataclysm turns our World of Warcraft upside down.
Let’s start with the druid. My excuse was that we’re supposed to do this alphabetically, but I realized that death knights actually come before druids now. While Blizzard has always tried to maintain a balance among classes in a rock-paper-scissors kind of way, I don’t think anyone — regardless of what class they play — who has ever encountered a druid has snickered to himself about how easy the fight is going to be. Druids, by and large, have a very high survivability as a class. Pair this with their supreme mobility and you’ve got one hell of a fight on your hands.
Continue reading The Art of War(craft): Introductory guide to fighting druids
The Art of War(craft): Introductory guide to fighting druids originally appeared on WoW on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 21, 2010 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: Hunter, Paladin, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, PvP, Guides, Classes, Interviews, Wrath of the Lich King, Battlegrounds, Arena, The Colosseum, Achievements
The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator (Relentless, Furious, Deadly, Brutal, Vengeful, Merciless, and otherwise), to interview some of the top Arena fighters on the battlegroups. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into dueling it out for fame, fortune, and Frostwyrms. We’re especially focused on the people who play these games, to further shed light on the world of the PvP player. If you’d like to be interviewed for The Colosseum, please feel free to contact us — be sure to include your armory as a link!
We’re in for a real treat this week. We interviewed Jhazy of Blackrock, one of the few players in arena history to achieve a 3,000 rating in 3v3. More impressive yet, he’s done this on the very competitive Bloodlust battlegroup, and is currently holding that #1 spot by a margin of more than one hundred points. Jhazy’s team STRAIGHT TO THE TOP is a protection warrior + marksman hunter + holy paladin composition. As a team, they are holding down the world’s #1 3v3 spot!
Check out what Jhazy has to say after the break!
Continue reading The Colosseum: Jhazy of Blackrock
The Colosseum: Jhazy of Blackrock originally appeared on WoW on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 16, 2010 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, PvP, Wrath of the Lich King, (Arena PvP) Blood Sport, Battlegrounds, Arena
Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com’s arena column.
Listening Music: Home Video’s “You Will Know What to Do.” The video is some sweet NASA footage; try to not be mesmerized by it (difficult, I confess). When I first heard Home Video a few years ago (Citizen EP, We and In a Submarine), I thought the band might be a Thom Yorke solo project. That’s high praise from me. These guys do not disappoint.
Last Week: Part V of our Beginner’s Guide to Arena. After featuring some Miles Davis and John Coltrane, we talked a bit about some of the aspects skilled arena damage-dealers excel with.
This Week: We’ll be shifting gears a bit this week. Protection warriors are an important (and hot) topic within the arena community. I was thinking about publishing this article as a stand-alone and continuing the arena guide this week, but I’ve just been a tad bit too busy recently. More after the break!
Continue reading Blood Sport: Protection warriors overpowered?
Blood Sport: Protection warriors overpowered? originally appeared on WoW on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 06, 2010 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP, (PvP) The Art of War(craft), Battlegrounds
Zach is a Battlegrounds junkie. Even when he’s hocking up asthma-generated globules of radioactive phlegm, he still manages to squeeze in a little slaughtering time.
Happy New Year, folks. I hope all of you had a good 2009 and are reading this without a lingering hangover or, like me, some form of bronchial complication stemming from the smog generated by all the festivities’ firecrackers. We’re kicking off 2010 with a quick look at the year that just passed, and boy, was it ever a good one.
More than any other year in the World of Warcraft, 2009 was a fantastic year for the Battlegrounds. Some very significant changes implemented that year renewed their relevance; furthermore, Battleground enthusiasts also received a verbal commitment from Blizzard developers that that aspect of the game would receive more focus and attention. The year began with the effects of Wrath spilling over from 2008, with the new and exciting Wintergrasp giving new life (and lag) to the world PvP experience. The first important change, however, was to come later with patch 3.1 in April 2009.
Continue reading The Art of War(craft): 2009 was a banner year for the Battlegrounds
The Art of War(craft): 2009 was a banner year for the Battlegrounds originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 06, 2010 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, Walkthroughs, PvP, Features, Guides, Classes, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King, (Arena PvP) Blood Sport, Battlegrounds, Arena
Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com’s arena column.
Listening Music: Miles Davis and John Coltrane’s beautiful “So What.” We featured the Smashing Pumpkins last week. This week, we’ll be shifting gears to some brilliant jazz. You have to love the diversity Blood Sport offers in pwning music.
Last Week: Part IV of our Arena Guide for Beginners. We talked about the marks of a skilled healer inside an arena battle.
This Week: Not surprisingly, today’s article will be structured in a very similar fashion to our last for our bloodthirsty DPS readers. More after the break!
Continue reading Blood Sport: Beginner’s Guide to Arena, Part V
Blood Sport: Beginner’s Guide to Arena, Part V originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Jan 06, 2010 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Analysis / Opinion, Walkthroughs, PvP, Features, Classes, (Arena PvP) Blood Sport, Battlegrounds, Arena
Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com’s arena column.
Listening Music: Zero, by the Smashing Pumpkins. I knew I wanted to feature the pumpkins today, I just didn’t know what song. I sifted through maybe twenty or thirty songs. I thought about featuring Cherub Rock, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Today, and The Everlasting Gaze, among others. 1979 was out of the question – it feels like too much like Sesame Street to me. In the end, it came down to Zero or Eye. I wanted to feature the Ghost in the Shell video of Eye (NSFW), but it’s got a little cartoon nudity in it, so that’s why we’re going with Zero today.
Last Week: Part III of our beginner’s arena guide. We discussed very basic arena strategy for many popular specs of each class. Last week’s column is pretty long — about twice the length of a normal Blood Sport article. Check it out if you have the time; it’ll set a good foundation for today’s subject.
This Week: We’ll be talking about the qualities of a skilled arena healer. Full article after the break!
Continue reading Blood Sport: Beginner’s Guide to Arena, Part IV
Blood Sport: Beginner’s Guide to Arena, Part IV originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 22, 2009 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, Walkthroughs, Blizzard, PvP, Guides, Classes, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King, (Arena PvP) Blood Sport, Battlegrounds, Arena, Achievements
Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com’s arena column.
Listening Music: Modeselektor’s Tetrispack. Allison Robert offered a challenge to our most beloved columnist last week. Ms. Roberts has chosen a clever and palatable piece with Richard Shindell’s On-A-Sea-Of-Fleur-De-Lis. And now we come to my retaliation. My wife recommended our musical selection today — it just happened to be on the absolute opposite end of the spectrum. How fitting. We love this song, albeit mostly for the intro. Upon your first listen, if you correctly predict the timing and type of shift in the first thirty seconds, serious e-props to you.
To wit, Robert: pan flute > no pan flute. Your move.
Last Week: part two of our beginner’s arena guide. We featured the cute ukulele kid who pretty much controls the internet right now. After that, we discussed frequently asked questions from new arena players. We talked about how to spec and what team composition to choose, with two different types of answers (easy and long).
Today, we’ll be talking some very basic class strategy. If you know your class inside and out, you’ll know what I’m going to say when it comes to your class and arena. You can still learn about other classes here. I’ve written over 2500 words about individual class perspective inside arenas, that’s a lot. Full article after the break.
Continue reading Blood Sport: Beginner’s guide to arena, part III
Blood Sport: Beginner’s guide to arena, part III originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 22, 2009 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP, Battlegrounds
Zach is a Battlegrounds freak. Even if he doesn’t raid or quest or sell things at the auction house, he’ll make sure to get a small dose of Battlegrounds PvP to brighten up his day. You should, too. They’re like vitamins. Bloody, face-melting, honor-gaining, sword-clashing vitamins.
This little thing called patch 3.3 came out some time back, maybe you’d heard. I had planned it to be my return from an unintentionally self-imposed hiatus from hardcore play, considering that all the tools would now be in place to allow all players of all gear levels to catch up the the penultimate level of content. It was a good plan, except that a few things here and there kept me from jumping right into it when the Fall of the Lich King went live.
The new Dungeon Finder system is getting rave reviews from everyone who’s tried it. I think it’s an awesome tool — quite possibly one of the best things to happen to the game. The coolest thing about it for me is that the concept stemmed from the Battlegrounds! That’s right… the Battlegroup-wide grouping system is inspired by the way Battlegrounds get players from various realms from way back since Patch 1.12 in 2006. Who’d have thunk it, right? The rest of the PvE population getting something good — something really, really good — from the PvP aspect of the game.
Blizzard has been cleverly trying to sprinkle PvP elements into the PvE side of the game, such as the Princess Delrissa encounter in Magisters’ Terrace, and its more recent, scaled-up version, the Faction Champions in the Trial of the Crusader. If the message isn’t already clear, Blizzard is trying to make you like PvP. At any rate, this whole new PUG craze is a happy byproduct of the cross-realm Battleground system. The only difference is, in Battlegrounds, group composition isn’t as important.
Continue reading The Art of War(craft): Getting your groove back with a little PvP
The Art of War(craft): Getting your groove back with a little PvP originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 17, 2009 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Tricks, How-tos, PvP, Features, Classes, Talents, Wrath of the Lich King, (Arena PvP) Blood Sport, Battlegrounds, Arena
Want to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women? Blood Sport investigates the entirety of all-things arena for gladiators and challengers alike. C. Christian Moore, multiple rank 1 gladiator, examines the latest arena strategy, trends, compositions and more in WoW.com’s arena column.
Listening Music: The cutest kid you’ve ever seen covering Jason Mraz. Blood Sport normally features the musical works of professionals. For this little guy, we have to make an exception. My favorite part is right before the first verse. I love the intense scrunched face and little head nod. I dare you to find anything even half as cute. That video of a tickled kitten has nothing on this.
Last Week: part one of our beginner’s arena guide. First, we fielded a possible complaint about catering to casuals. After that, we talked a little bit about some of the best ways to gear up: finding an arena team, doing battlegrounds, and running Vault of Archavon. Check it out if you have the time.
This week, we’ll talk about some frequently asked questions players have when considering jumping into the arena. Read on for part two of our arena guide for beginners after the break!
Continue reading Blood Sport: Beginner’s guide to arena, part II
Blood Sport: Beginner’s guide to arena, part II originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on Dec 12, 2009 under battlegrounds |
Filed under: PvP, Features, Guides, WoW Rookie, Battlegrounds
New around here? WoW Rookie points WoW’s newest players to the basics of a good start in the World of Warcraft. For links to all our tips, tricks and how-to’s, visit WoW.com’s WoW Rookie Guide.
Now that you can spice up your leveling experience by adding a little PvP to the mix, you owe it to yourself to do it up right. Battlegrounds can be bufuddling for new players, and WoW Rookie would be sad to hear you’d given up on them based on a couple of false starts. Head straight over to Zach Yonzon’s A-to-Z coverage of Battleground basics in The Art of War(craft)’s Absolute beginner’s guide to the Battlegrounds. Join us after the break for a complete list of the Battlegrounds you can enjoy, starting at level 10.
Continue reading WoW Rookie: The absolute beginner’s guide to Battlegrounds
WoW Rookie: The absolute beginner’s guide to Battlegrounds originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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